Posts Tagged ‘ realitycheck ’

When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. This. From White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. Don’t get white privilege? You’re not alone. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as...
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Because at the actual end of the year I never feel like doing this… I started 2009 editing Ben. I did okay–it took forever, but I got it in a shape where I could have whipped it into a real book. Then (in March) I got a partial request for Taro and had to...
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I keep jerking awake. Flailing, usually. Once I fell off the bed. It’s a twin, very narrow, and there was a cat…anyway. Jerk awake. Flailing. Drowning. Can’t breathe. We all know life is fragile. Know it in our heads, anyway. But when you wake six times in one night, drowning in the immune response...
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So apparently it’s Blog Against Racism Week, and having been out of it for most of the last week and a half with what I thought might be pneumonia but is apparently going away so maybe not… Yeah. Especially since I started this post and had some vaguely connecting thoughts coming together, and then...
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So how goes the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM? Bleh. I haven’t edited anything. I write, maybe a thousand words on Fidelis, maybe 300, maybe none, and I swim. That’s about all I’ve done. I blame the swimming, mostly. Since I was off work I have been swimming for an hour nearly every day....
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